Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-10-29
LABOR AND LABOR. RS.
OF Interest to Employers ard EN-
ployed.
Sailed and Unskil ed Work.. Buiicipg
Trades Busy--The Half Holiday
MISUNDERSTANDING ihs
Architects.

and unskilled labor is still fully up t..
and in many cases in excess of. the
supply. Wages are easily held in al
skilled branches. and in some places
inferior skilled labor IL being paid tho
same wages as the best skilled. = COM
plant which employ rs have had occa-
son to make quite frequently of late.
The determine ion of trades %unionists
t. exact the same compensation for IL
ferior skilled labor as for the best is q
source of constant annoyance to many
employers, who see no way Of escape
with work SO abundant. They VII, no
doubt, take the first opportunity to
weed out the less valuable and retain
the best.
The movement for n Saturday half
holiday in New York is a failure. En-
ployers say tat margins will not al
low a half-holiday at this time, IS 90 n
p :ition was never 80 sharp, but admit
that If general the half holiday would
be endurable. Enlighrer ed employer s
and persons of a philanthropic turn of
mind are urging that a more generous
sympathy should be created between
employers and employees; that this
would do more to lessen t1e friction
than strong protective organizations.
One Lowell corporation treats lis 500
employees to a days excursion.
More or less labor is constantly
docking southwark, but the demand
there is for special kinds of skin. such
~ founders, mAchinists, workers in
wood, makers OF railway appliances,
stovemakers and the like. There are
also a good many lumber worker rs find
'ng employment in the yellow pine and
cypress regions Of the south. Southern
white labor is willing TO werk end is
steadily falling in. NegrS labor comes
in rather more slowly, and SIS a rule
'ess r~eiIable, owing to the irregular
habits under the old cotton growing
regime.
The competition Of trade among tex
tile manufacturers is such as to stimu-
iate production, especially in all KINDS
f cotton goods. Staple productions
are closely sold up, prices are very firm.
md retailers are Fastening in large
riders for winter disiIi uti, The
outlook is very favorable tor the winter.
Loom capacity is pretty well so,dup
and New England manufacturers re
n excellent spirits over the favor be
rade indications for the winter.
The industrial reports from news
oapers throughout the Northwest show
/. haste ming forward OF all kinds of
nferprise on account of the near ap-
Droach If cod weather. Ia MaDy shops
work is being kept up until 10 or IL
o'clock. In some mills il is "A common
hing to have day and night work. A
God many new shOps are being huilt
nd will be ready for msch,n.rs ny
February. and for operation ny April I.
For years past stoolmaking in + e
land has been crowding ironmaking to
| the wall, so TO speak, and y great
many pudding mi Is or forgrs rave
oeen idle or only partially employed
A new basic furnace called The Battle.
mas been perfected which, according TO
English papers, will save many IRON
n.kIng districts from ruin. steel
plants are multiplying because they a
oo built at a very small cost.
LABOR organizations are increas ng
steadily. The Federation of Labor is
aiming ground quickly. and is iRcress-
ing membership faster o than tho
Knights 'f Labor. There are notactional
disturbances, no complaints about 49,
.essm. n,s, no interf. renee Of central
,uthority with local, but general har-
mony prevails between the various
branches Of the federation.
The ~tannerles of the country oom-
plain bitterly Of narrow margins. hut
their output is beng promptly mar
keted. They ant,c pate IN improve
nent in prices on account of the in
crea-ing sales Of boots aud shoes. The
hoot and shne manufacturers all over
NJ New England states sDd Philadel-
hia have had n remarkably good sea
son as to volume Of bushes IS.
Architects report that the prospects
re for a larger amount of building
'nrirr the coming winter than last
winter ON account If the alteration OF
rsidences in cities for ST. re purposes
nd large amount If improvements in
~ellings. In Pniladelph,a alterations
ave M en- carried on "n a larger scale
IAN fer years. A great deal of work
now in hand.
There are 90 blast furnaces In and
nut Pitsbury, 35 rolling mills. ~
.-I works, Is window glars works,
7 flint glass WI rks ard ii green g'rsS
orks. TIE blast furnaces male &c.,
0 tons ~ iron per year; he rolling
'is $4,000 tons; s'esl works. 700.
o ,o'- plate glsss works. $500 100
Iuare feet; window glass VOL ks, &c.
w boxes.